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Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel

BR Deutschland 1967 Spielfilm

The Blood Demon / The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism

Horror film based on a model by Edgar Allan Poe: After being sentenced to death by quartering for 12 murders in 1801, Count Regula returns to life four years later - with the aim of finding a 13th victim whose blood would give him eternal life. To this end, he invites the unsuspecting lawyer Roger Mont-Elise and the beautiful Baroness Lilian to his castle under a pretext...

Credits

Director

  • Harald Reinl

Screenplay

  • Manfred R. Köhler

Director of photography

  • Ernst W. Kalinke
  • Dieter Liphardt

Editing

  • Hermann Haller

Music

  • Peter Thomas

Cast

  • Lex Barker
    Advokat Roger
  • Karin Dor
    Baroness Lilian
  • Christopher Lee
    Graf Regula
  • Carl Lange
    Anatol
  • Christiane Rücker
    Babette
  • Vladimir Medar
    Fabian
  • Dieter Eppler
    Kutscher

Production company

  • Constantin Film GmbH (München)

Alle Credits

Director

  • Harald Reinl

Assistant director

  • Charles M. Wakefield

Script supervisor

  • Emmy Drake

Screenplay

  • Manfred R. Köhler

based on

  • Edgar Allan Poe (Motive der Erzählung "The Pit and the Pendulum")

Director of photography

  • Ernst W. Kalinke
  • Dieter Liphardt

Assistant camera

  • Kurt Brückner
  • Joachim Gitt

Optical effects

  • Theodor Nischwitz

Still photography

  • Li Erben

Production design

  • Rolf Zehetbauer
  • Gabriel Pellon

Set construction

  • Werner Achmann

Property master

  • Georg Attlfellner

Stand-by props

  • Erich Kogler

Make-up artist

  • Erich Schmekel
  • Gerda Bublitz

Costume design

  • Irms Pauli

Costumes

  • Anton Dissertori
  • Anni Graf

Editing

  • Hermann Haller

Assistant editor

  • Jutta Neumann
  • Mia Pleines

Sound

  • Hans-Joachim Richter

Special effects

  • Erwin Lange

Music

  • Peter Thomas

Cast

  • Lex Barker
    Advokat Roger
  • Karin Dor
    Baroness Lilian
  • Christopher Lee
    Graf Regula
  • Carl Lange
    Anatol
  • Christiane Rücker
    Babette
  • Vladimir Medar
    Fabian
  • Dieter Eppler
    Kutscher

Production company

  • Constantin Film GmbH (München)

Line producer

  • Erwin Gitt

Unit production manager

  • Wolfgang Kühnlenz

Location manager

  • Werner Drake
  • Robert Göb (Assistenz)

Production manager

  • Alma Pewny

Production office

  • Dörte Gentz

Original distributor

  • Constantin Film GmbH (München)

Shoot

    • 16.05.1967 - 07.07.1967: Außenaufnahmen: Isartal, Detmold, Rothenburg, Straßlach, Teutoburger Wald, bei Schlangen; Studioaufnahmen: Bavaria-Atelier München-Geiselgasteig
Duration:
2333 m, 85 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,66
Video/Audio:
Eastmancolor, Mono
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 25.08.1967, 37872, ab 12 Jahre / nicht feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 05.10.1967;
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 16.02.1991, Pro 7

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel

Versions

Restaurierte und digitalisierte Fassung

Format:
DCP 2k

Original

Duration:
2333 m, 85 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,66
Video/Audio:
Eastmancolor, Mono
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 25.08.1967, 37872, ab 12 Jahre / nicht feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 05.10.1967;
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 16.02.1991, Pro 7

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